What is the current state of employment in Canada? / Quel est l’état actuel de l’emploi au Canada?

[theocelot]

@giddyg Sorry I forgot to award my free silver to you. But i love your wholesomeness.

 

[daphotoguy]

@giddyg They are actually reporting most of those data. You can also look at their estimate of the number of hours worked by entire population.

 

[giddyg]

@daphotoguy Yep thanks for pointing it out

 

[wandaa]

@giddyg The nuance of unemployed people who don’t want to work though makes it difficult. A home maker or full time parent who still has a healthy household income and doesn’t want to/can’t work shouldn’t be included in the statistics surely. It should only include people who want to work but don’t have a job.

The problem is accounting for people who have given up looking for work or who haven’t started yet etc.

 

[christlover69]

@wandaa It would be so noisy that it wouldn’t be very useful. You would be including students, homemakers, family caretakers, retirees, early retirees, sick/injured.

Having homemakers/students/early retirees are all good things as well. Shows you have a mature economy that can support people so they aren’t working till they are 75, and the population is improving their education.

 

[dominic1]

@giddyg IMHO, it wouldn't make sense if unemployment rate calculations including people who are not looking for a job (I.e. some students or folks decided to retire early). Just like somebody else mentioned, thats why we have two different rates, "employment rate" and "labour force participation rate".

 

[resjudicata]

@audreyl I never realized till now that these posts are actually coming from an official Stats Canada account. Very cool.

 

[audreyl]

@resjudicata Thank you for the nice comment, critercat

 

[cyberprince]

@audreyl Thanks stats Canada! You're with the times, posting on reddit. How did you convince the higher ups to let you do this?